Afghan Whigs have released the first track from the band's anticipated comeback album, Do the Beast. "Algiers" is a dusty Spaghetti Western of a track, complete with castanets, tremeloed minor chords and twangy leads. The video carries the theme further and you can watch that below. The album's out April 18 on Sub Pop.

We knew Afghan Whigs would be playing Coachella but Greg Dulli and the band will be playing other shows this spring, including Brooklyn Bowl on May 15. Tickets go on presale on Wednesday (2/19) at 10 AM (password is "d2tbbrooklyn"), with the general sale beginning Friday (2/21) at 10 AM.

Nice to see that some of the trolls have re-emerged from last night's meeting on the demented minds. For a second there I thought you were all going to start blowing each other. Probably did, actually.

Dulli explains why Rick is currently not in the band to Rolling Stone (also includes a quote from Rick)

Greg Dulli: Rick's personal problems got to the point where it wasn't about music anymore — enough so that it became clear we couldn't continue on with him. We wish him well, but until Rick confronts some very real things in his own life, I can't play music with him.

["I respect and have deep admiration for those guys," McCollum says in regards to his departure from the Whigs. "I'm excited to hear what they came up with, but I have to get my personal life back into gear. I have to work on myself, and my personal issues. I want to do stuff on my own, too; my band, Moon Maan, is doing an album. We're brothers, and we're going to have discrepancies, but it's good. It's not like we hate each other; it's a positive thing on all ends.

Thanks 2:56. I knew it, you all bitches were all like "aw no don't be a dick" and I was all "fuck you it's true". And guess what, motherfuckers - IT'S TRUE!

Having justified myself now before ya'all, I will make the observation that no one has made now, namely that Dulli brought along Rosser to the reformed Whigs and gave him the more prominent spot both in the mix and on the stage - so how about that happen to you and you tell me how you would react, hmmm? I bet it might look a lot like "I have to work on myself, and my personal issues. I want to do stuff on my own." Fucking upstaged by some other dude, that's a shitty deal yo.